History Recap / LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E19Intoxicated

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Subverted; at first it appears Denise is behaving so aggressively toward her daughter because she doesn't want her to be DefiledForever by her [[AgeGapRomance age-inappropriate sexual relationship]]; at the end it turns out she was really just doing it ForTheEvulz.

* BlatantLies:
** Benson runs a standard police scam on Carrie to find out whether she murdered her mother, falsely claiming Justin has betrayed her and told the detectives details of the murder. Carrie is completely taken in and confesses.
** Denise claims she's trying to bust Justin for statutory rape in order to prevent him from [[DefiledForever "ruining" Carrie]], the way Denise was ruined by Carrie's father, who impregnated and abandoned her. In the end, Carrie tells Benson that Denise said she was trying to break up the relationship so that [[KickTheDog no one would love Carrie]].

* TheAlcoholic: Denise Eldridge, which the defense uses in their case. When Benson searches Denise's home she finds an incredible collection of alcohol bottles in every nook and cranny, including in the laundry hamper, under the couch cushions, in the oven,[[note]]implying she is a poor homemaker[[/note]] in her underwear drawer and hidden in a chandelier. Warner tells Benson Denise had such advanced liver cirrhosis that she would have been dead in two years from alcohol abuse if she hadn't been beaten to death.
* AllPeriodsArePMS: the defense winds up arguing that Carrie [[ChewbaccaDefense killed her mother because of pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder]]. Casey [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] her disgust at the suggestion that women are so emotional that their periods cause them to kill people.

* AntiAlcoholAesop: Denise is an extreme alcoholic with alcohol bottles hidden in every nook and cranny of her home. Carrie says that "I loved my mom very much, but when she was drunk she wasn't a mother." [[BrokenAesop Undermined by the events of the story]], as Denise is an unpleasant person (and abusive of her daughter) even when there's no evidence she is drunk, and her backstory suggests her behavior is the product of [[TheResenter the negative attitude towards life she learned from it]] - alcohol is just an excuse for her underlying pathology.

** Denise claims she's trying to bust Justin for statutory rape in order to prevent him from [[DefiledForever "ruining" Carrie]], the way Denise was ruined by Carrie's father, who impregnated and abandoned her. In the end Carrie tells Benson that Denise said she was trying to break up the relationship so that [[KickTheDog no one would love Carrie]].

* DespairEventHorizon: when Carrie is led to believe that Justin has betrayed her and doesn't love her any more, she immediately breaks down and confesses because nothing matters any more after that.

* FriendlessBackground: the principal notes that Carrie has no friends at school.

* IndyPloy: when Justin, at work, learns that Carrie has killed her mother, he rushes off to see her and improvises a plan to evade the cops and prevent them from determining which of the lovers killed Carrie's mother, preventing them from securing a conviction. Carrie [[IdiotBall screws things up]].

** Carrie fails to carry out her boyfriend's [[IndyPloy plan]] and gets herself locked up (even though the prosecution could never have secured a conviction without her assistance) when she admits to killing her mother instead of keeping her mouth shut. When Benson pretends Justin ratted her out Carrie instantly believes that he has abandoned her and doesn't love her any more even though he's been risking jail to be with her through the whole episode. Carrie believes so readily because she thinks cops are not allowed to lie, and is shocked when Benson admits that, in fact, she did lie.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: the beat cop who called the SVU detectives in to a seemingly mundane domestic squabble [[LampshadeHanging explains]] that [[RapeAsDrama any time they hear the]] [[UnusualEuphemism "r-word"]] they have to call SVU.

* TheMole: it turns out that it was Benson who betrayed the squad by calling in CrusadingLawyer Simone to complicate their investigation; Simone was the person who helped Benson get through a nearly identical situation as a young woman.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: subverted; at first it appears [[CrusadingLawyer Simone]] accidentally inspired Carrie to murder her mother by telling her the courts would be more likely to consider Carrie's legal emancipation if she were ConvenientlyAnOrphan. This turns out to be a RedHerring, as Carrie actually killed her mother after snapping under the stress of being beaten, [[SlutShaming slut-shamed]], and having her boyfriend (and their relationship) threatened.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: subverted; at first it appears Denise is behaving so aggressively toward her daughter because she doesn't want her to be DefiledForever by her [[AgeGapRomance age-inappropriate sexual relationship]]; at the end it turns out she was really just doing it ForTheEvulz.

* DisappearingDad: Carrie's father left Denise the day he found out she was pregnant, leaving Denise [[TheResenter resentful]] at having her life "ruined" by single motherhood and setting the stage for the main plot 17 years later.

* AntiAlcoholAesop: Denise is an extreme alcoholic with alcohol bottles hidden in every nook and cranny of her home. Carrie says that "I loved my mom very much, but when she was drunk she wasn't a mother." [[BrokenAesop Undermined by the events of the story]], as Denise is an unpleasant person (and abusive of her daughter) even when there's no evidence she is drunk, and her behavior suggests her behavior is the product of [[TheResenter her negative attitude towards life]] - alcohol is just an excuse for her underlying pathology.

* AntiAlcoholAesop: Denise is an extreme alcoholic with alcohol bottles hidden in every nook and cranny of her home. Carrie says that "I loved my mom very much, but when she was drunk she wasn't a mother." [[BrokenAesop undermined by the events of the story]], as Denise is an unpleasant person (and abusive of her daughter) even when there's no evidence she is drunk, and her behavior suggests her behavior is the product of [[TheResenter her negative attitude towards life]] - alcohol is just an excuse for her underlying pathology.

* RescueRomance: invoked by Benson as an explanation of the intensity of Carrie's yearning for Justin, because Benson got engaged to one of her mother's students when she was 16 as a means of escaping her home.

* AntiAlcoholAesop: Denise is an extreme alcoholic with alcohol bottles hidden in every nook and cranny of her home. Carrie says that "I loved my mom very much, but when she was drunk she wasn't a mother."

* TheAlcoholic: Denise Eldridge, which the defense uses in their case. When Benson searches Denise's home she finds an incredible collection of alcohol bottles in every nook and cranny, including in the laundry hamper, under the couch cushions, in the oven, in her underwear drawer and hidden in a chandelier. Warner tells Benson Denise had such advanced liver cirrhosis that she would have been dead in two years from alcohol abuse if she hadn't been beaten to death.

ItsPersonal: Benson and Stabler each have their view of the case colored by their own backgrounds - Stabler sees a girl like one of his daughters sleeping with a grown man, Benson sees a girl abused by her alcoholic single mother. Benson in particular feels such a connection to the case that she breaks protocol by secretly calling the CrusadingLawyer who helped her through a similar circumstance to interfere with the case.

* RescueRomance: invoked by the detectives as an explanation of the intensity of Carrie's yearning for Justin.

* IndyPloy: when Justin, at work, learns that Carrie has killed her mother, he rushes off to see her and improvises a plan whereby the cops will be unable to determine which of them killed Carrie's mother and will thus be unable to secure a conviction. Carrie [[IdiotBall screws things up]].

* FriendlessBackground: the guidance counselor notes that Carrie has no friends at school.

* TheAlcoholic: Denise Eldridge, which the defense uses in their case.